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If its just to commute to school..... YES!Hope you all don't mind me asking a question on topic here. I've only recently moved to Tokyo and am looking for a commuter bike that I would lock up on university campus, maybe 2-5 hours a day. I was looking to spend 70-100k on a used road bike, but having seen many bikes left outside without any locks, I just assumed bike theft wasn't a real problem here. I don't know how much the OP's bike is worth, but now I'm wondering if I should get a 10k grocery bike instead?
I've only recently moved to Tokyo and am looking for a commuter bike that I would lock up on university campus, maybe 2-5 hours a day. I was looking to spend 70-100k on a used road bike, but having seen many bikes left outside without any locks, I just assumed bike theft wasn't a real problem here. I don't know how much the OP's bike is worth, but now I'm wondering if I should get a 10k grocery bike instead?
A 50cm long bolt cutters (available at all good hardwear stores)will go through that lock and chain in seconds.
I'd say don't take anything out of your apartment that you cannot afford to have stolen. Compared to almost any other city in the world, your bike is most unlikely to be stolen - that's why a stolen bike makes the 'news' here. It does happen, though. There are some opportunist thieves, but also some gangs of professional bike thieves.I was looking to spend 70-100k on a used road bike, but [...] I'm wondering if I should get a 10k grocery bike instead?
Since I too commute to a university via bicycle I can at least provide a relevant perspective. Our campus is basically a huge square, with bike parking lots at each of the four corners. Anywhere from 200 to 400 bikes are regularly parked in each of these spaces. About 1 to 2% have recognized manufacturer's brand names (Giant, Garneau, Masi, etc.) the rest are cheapo commuter bikes. Most are locked or course, but often not locked to anything stationary. Because the campus is so large, some of the most easily accessible bikes are stolen just to take the thief from one corner of the campus to another. However, once stolen, these are rarely found (just too much space to cover). So, at the end of every semester, for whatever reason, including relocation through stealing, each parking lot has a large number of abandoned bikes, which are then carted off and dumped. I usually grab one or two and give them to a local school that needs them. Very few bikes over a value of Y100,000 are ever parked in these lots. I carry my own bike up 3 flights of stairs to my office--I would NEVER leave it parked, even bolted to a lamppost, in one of the assigned lots, nor would I buy a beater just to use for the commute, unless I lived fairly close (I don't).Hope you all don't mind me asking a question on topic here. I've only recently moved to Tokyo and am looking for a commuter bike that I would lock up on university campus, maybe 2-5 hours a day. I was looking to spend 70-100k on a used road bike, but having seen many bikes left outside without any locks, I just assumed bike theft wasn't a real problem here. I don't know how much the OP's bike is worth, but now I'm wondering if I should get a 10k grocery bike instead?
I think he was referring to my 10k grocery bike commentI'm not sure what to make of this; but as long as people believe that a bike costing well under 100,000 yen is merely a "beater", all to the good!